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Travelling by Amtrak

Americans don’t know how good they have it with Amtrak trains, I would go as far as to say that they are wasted on the majority of them. The number of people we met who had never travelled by train […]

Posted on July 2, 2018July 2, 2018 by Rosanna
Posted in Round the world, Transport, USATagged train, train journey, usa2 Comments

The Reunification Express

Even since watching Michael Palin Full Circle, the one thing above all that I wanted to do in Vietnam was travel by train from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City. In fact despite the city name change, the trains still […]

Posted on May 6, 2018May 7, 2018 by Rosanna
Posted in Round the world, Transport, VietnamTagged train, train journey, vietnam6 Comments

Home sweet home

On the weekend we finally made it back on British soil after 51 weeks away from home, let’s call it a year. Saturday was a lazy morning, packing our bags for the last time and gathering our thoughts. It’s hard […]

Posted on March 28, 2018June 18, 2018 by Rosanna
Posted in Belgium, News, Round the world, United KingdomTagged belgium, family, friends, train, uk10 Comments

Sweet Carolina (do do doo)

North Carolina was our unexpected last stop in the US, simply because the container ship to Europe left from a place called Wilmington. It was meant to be straight forward to get there too, an overnight train from Miami to […]

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Rosanna
Posted in Round the world, Transport, USATagged bus, coast, train, usaLeave a comment

We The North

After visiting New York, Toronto was bliss. The food was affordable, the metro navigable and the place names familiarly British. From York University to Don Valley Trail, it was clearly Yorkshire folk who settled in the area. We arrived on […]

Posted on February 16, 2018June 18, 2018 by Rosanna
Posted in Canada, Round the worldTagged art, basketball, beer, food, graffiti, train, walk6 Comments

In a New York minute

We arrived into the Big Apple by train from Chicago. The line is named the Lakeshore Limited because it skirts the shore of Lake Erie as far as Rochester and then heads south east, eventually meeting the Hudson River which […]

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Mischa
Posted in Round the world, USATagged basketball, city, ferry, museum, train, usa2 Comments

Tootin’ Tucson

Tucson Arizona was the one place in America I wanted to see, and travelling on the Sunset Limited from L.A. to New Orleans was the one journey I wanted to take. For my birthday, around New Years, my wishes came […]

Posted on January 22, 2018August 15, 2018 by Rosanna
Posted in Round the world, USATagged cactus, couchsurfing, desert, food, national park, train, usa4 Comments

From Hanoi to Hong Kong

It’s possible to travel overland from Vietnam all the way to Hong Kong within 24 hours. If you plan ahead, it is only a matter of two trains and then two metro lines taking you to Kowloon. One train to […]

Posted on December 20, 2017April 27, 2018 by Rosanna
Posted in China, Hong Kong & Macau, Round the world, Transport, VietnamTagged china, food, hong kong, train, vietnam2 Comments

Between Rivers

The name Hanoi means “Inside [the] river”. It was given this name in 1831 having previously been known as ‘Dragon Belly’, ‘Big Net’ and ‘Eastern Metropolis’, among others. It is apparently sometimes referred to as the Paris of the east, […]

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Mischa
Posted in Round the world, VietnamTagged beer, city, countryside, museum, river, train, vietnamLeave a comment

Getting around Japan

We arrived in Japan by ferry from Busan in South Korea and disembarked in the city of Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu. Knowing most of our travel in Japan would be by train, rail passes had already been purchased […]

Posted on November 27, 2017January 7, 2018 by Rosanna
Posted in Japan, Round the world, TransportTagged bus, japan, trainLeave a comment

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Travelling without flying

From March 2017 to March 2018 we backpacked around the world without catching a single aeroplane. This blog contains our experiences and stories, from surprises to delights, plus some tips on how we travelled flight-free.

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  • London to LuxembourgLondon to LuxembourgMarch 31, 2017

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  • Crossing the Pond April 2, 2018
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